The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1887-12-29
FOR TWO STATES.
Further Expressions Of Opinion
hrIm Dakota People Relative to
the Aberdeen Convention.

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should the lower house send up such ;
bill?
I'd. Do you not think the senate
should, in such case, return the bill tt
| the lower house with an amendment tt
the effect that the enabling act shal
apply to South Dakota?
| yative upon the question OF division
do you not think the senate should at
least tack on an amendment, leaving
the question of division again to the
people, and should division carry. the
most pOpulous half to take advantage
Of the enabling act?
+ 5th. Are you not in favor of remain
ing q territory for q time rather than
accept admission as a whole, cfoked
down our throatS, as it were?
9Th. What do you think of the pro
posed Aberdeen convention?
Answers since the last publication
are as follows:
THEO. d. KANOuSE.
lion. Theo. ID. kanouse, of Woon-
socket, cOngressman-elect from South
Dakota under the Sioux Falls constitu-
ton, writes:
EDITOR ADvoCATE:-Ans the
first question: We have good reason
to believe (since the Aberdeen conven-
tom that the senate will be so called
upon. But il called upon to pass q
one-Statc enabling act it would seem
that the senators in the majority might
without hesitation vote may on its
passage. or return it. as your second
question intimates. with an amend
mcnt providing enabling acts for both
North and South Dakota. ! c1n see no
possible Use of asking our people to
again answer the question so many
times already answered.: Are you in
favor Of division:
OF the Aberdeen convention, | think
let me see. Ordway Johnson, II. {.
Presto on. c. Boyd Barrett, Major Ed
wards. WE'LL think succotash, but
never. no never, think politicians.
Yours for division and admission
Of both North and South Dakota.
AUGUSTINE DAVIS.
Augustine Davis, president of the
Dakota press association, says:
EDITOR ADvOC ATE:-I do not think
the senate should allow the passage of
an enabling act for Dakota as one
state.
| think the senate should pass an en-
abling act for North and South DakO-
ia.
To oppose coercion. and to maintain
their Just rights for themselves and
their children. every true Dakotan
should refuse to accept admission as 4
whole
The Aberdeen convention was a hol-
low fraud a mere preteXt to defeat adj
mission in any form. 1t is the scheme
of carpet-bag otfceholders and their Sy-
cOphantic followers to perpetnate them
selves in official places. | believe it
will Hnitc The divisiOnists to still! greater
efforts for success.
HUGH }. CAMPBELL.
Hon. Hugh j. Campbell Of Yankton,
eX-tnited States attorney for Dakota.
writes:
EDITOE ADvOCATE:-In answer to
your questions have the great pleasure
of saving:
lst That in my opinion the United
States senate will not pass an enabling
act as whole, especially such fraud
llent and unjust a bill, in its apportion-
ment, npmhrr of delegates, its election
provisions, and other features, as
Springer will bulldoze through the
house.
I'd. If the Springer bill should be un-
objectionable in other respects, which is
very unlikely, your plan of returning it
with amendments would be good.
Sd. | think the senate should and
will stick to its position, now solemnly
enacted by two SenateS. viz: That Da-
kota of right ought to be and shall be
two states. Senator Hale. in the last
few days, told citizen Of Dakota, that
Dakota should be two states and that
New England would not oppose it.
4th. an unqnallnedly and pnalter-
ably in favor of remaining a Territory
until we become two states which will
be within two years.
The people Of South Dakota will ncv-
er be so craven and lost to their own
interests as to allow admission as n
whole to be ':choked down their
throats." They don't have to. They
at all times have the final and authori-
tative word in this matter.
9TH. The Aberdeen convention has
done excellent service to division.
1t has written its own epitaph-a
fraud.
1t has seriously hurt the democratic
party in Dakota, by parading it rs the
enemy Of division.
1t has disclosed the secret wire work
ers who are fighting division.
1t has unmasked the few weak sis
ters and traitors who were in our own
ranks, and put them where they can do
the least harm.
+. T. PETTIGREW.
Hon. r. F. Pettigrew, Of Sioux Falls,
ex-delegatc in congress from Dakota,
writes from Washington under date of
tbs 2ith inst, ..